Siheyuan: I Expose the Dirt from the Start, and the Whole Courtyard Panics

After transmigrating to a courtyard house in the 1960s, Lu Zheng awakens the Years Archive System.

Not only does he possess mountains of state-supplied goods, but the System can also automatically collect malice and produce black-and-white photographs with fingerprints and clear images, along with top-secret paper files!

In an era before Photoshop, the evidence provided by the System is ironclad proof that can take someone down with a single shot!

It's a time of shortages, and the beasts in the courtyard scheme and bicker over half a jin of cornmeal.

Yi Zhonghai puts on a virtuous front while trying to bleed him dry? One photo of him "hiding a spy radio" lands right on the Security Office's desk!

Silly Zhu struts around, throwing his weight around and beating people up? A file documenting his "long-term theft from the state-run cafeteria" earns him ten years at the sewing machine!

As the beasts in the whole courtyard glare at him and gang up on him, Lu Zheng shuts his door and feasts on wagyu beef and Lafite. He considers even arguing a waste of breath, and simply hands over a top-secret record of their crimes to send them to labor reform.

By the time the courtyard beasts are chewing tree bark on a farm in the northwest, Lu Zheng has submitted groundbreaking blueprints and become a chief engineer of a great nation, respected even by the highest leaders!